The one lesson I’ve learned from life: Tenor Russell Watson says it's 承認する to say no!
- Russell Watson, 54, who?lives in Cheshire, has topped?classical music charts?
- He 収容する／認めるs he said 'yes' to every 適切な時期 while starting out in his career
- Tenor says brain tumour diagnosis made him change the way he was living
Russell Watson 発射 to fame 21 years ago by winning a 地元の 無線で通信する 駅／配置する talent contest, and his first album, The 発言する／表明する, topped both the UK and U.S. classical music charts. In 2006 he was 診断するd with a brain tumour. Now 54, he lives in Cheshire with his wife Louise and daughters Rebecca, 26, and Hannah, 20.?
At the start of my career, I said ‘yes’ to every 適切な時期 because I was starting out and building a 評判. My first album （機の）カム out of the 罠（にかける）s in 2000 and kept going. It was No 1 for a year in the classical charts. By my second, I was travelling all over the world. It was the busiest time of my life.
You get to a point where you feel like you’re not living any more ― there’s just this 執拗な machine that keeps rolling and everything becomes more important than you. You have a day off but you’re asked to do an important 会合, a big career thing, and all you have to do is 選ぶ up the phone. There goes my afternoon with the children.?
Russell Watson, 54, (pictured) who lives in Cheshire,?明らかにする／漏らすs how a brain tumour diagnosis and another 近づく-death experience made him change the way he was living
When it 攻撃する，衝突する home was after my illness. I was 診断するd with a 非，不，無-cancerous but 急速な／放蕩な-growing brain tumour in 2006 and another a year later. A 近づく-death experience changes you. That was when I started to think, ‘I need to get a life.’
Until then, everything was about the career treadmill. But when the wheels fell off, I realised I needed to spend more time with my family and in my own home rather than a hotel room. During the entire second year of my career I only slept in my own bed once.
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It became 決定的な for my sanity to get some 外見 of normality. That realisation has profoundly changed my life. I began by doing some of the things I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to do, such as having a holiday.
Before, I’d have been on the phone by day two asking about 記録，記録的な／記録する sales. I couldn’t switch off. But that’s not healthy and it’s why people in the music 商売／仕事 struggle and have 問題／発行するs. You’re told if you say no, they won’t ask again. But I was happy to take that chance.
I’m so 感謝する for everything that has come my way. But now I feel more satisfaction. I’m happier in my own 肌.
Last Night Of The 遺産 Proms with Russell Watson takes place in West Sussex on July 18, in Berkshire on July 25, and in Saffron Walden, Essex, on August 15. Event info and tickets 利用できる now at heritagelive.逮捕する.?
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